1.  Time will pass; will you? 37 days remain in the fall semester.  Today’s Goals:  To read an analyze a transcendental poem  To understand and discuss ferment and reform in the 1800-1850s

2.  The Course Calendar is updated.Course Calendar  Essay Contests: You may want to consider the Williams Institute Ethics Essay, Voice of Democracy, and/or Polly Rosenbaumm— these are all posted on the class website under the “Course Calendar” tab  Are you monitoring your grades? Alert us immediately to any discrepancies.  The Class WebsiteClass Website

3.  Monday:  Grammar Lesson #4: “Coordination in the Compound Sentence”  A Day at Brook Farm  Tuesday:  `The next set of annotated bibs : 1 pro, 1 con and 1 visual — tii upload required  Wednesday:  Emerson readings and Socratic Prep is due: “Nature,” “Self- Reliance,” and “Education”  Thursday:  American Pageant, Chapter 16: “The South and Slavery Controversy,” pages 370-384  Unit Test 1-3.5 M/C (focus Chapters 12-15)

4.  Reading and Analysis  William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”  SSR: William Cullen Bryant’s biography, pages 139-139—3 points in his life that might have influenced his transcendental thought.  Group Work:  1: Sentence 1  2: Sentence 2  3: Sentences 3-4  4: Sentences 5-6  5: Sentences 7-8  6: Sentences 9-10  7: Sentences 11-12  8: Sentences 13-14  9: Sentence 15

5.  DePaul Univ. handout  Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy  http://plato.stanford.edu/ http://plato.stanford.edu/  Isn’t the internet a double-edged sword – overload but wondrous information such as Meece’s Masters paper on Plato (essentialism/idealism) compared to Bergson (existentialism) then both compared to their joint disagreement with materialism (Diedrot, Feuerbach, Marx, and many current science philosophers)

6.  American Pageant, Chapter 15: “The Ferment of Reform and Culture”  Questions on Guiding Questions? - Turn in.  2 nd Great Awakening and new religious sects including Mormons  Temperance Movement  Institutional reforms: Education and schools, mentally ill, prisons  Abolitionism (will grow to be major movement)  Suffrage movement – “Declaration of Sentiments” and Resolutions (1848) – page 230 of Document book